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1600 watts is unusually low for electric baseboard heaters! These usually are rated at about 6000 watts.Typical electric baseboard heaters operate on 220 volts thus you heater would pull about 7.3 amperes and 16 gauge wire can easily handle this.A standard 6000 watt baseboard heater pulls about 27 amperes and needs 10 gauge wire.
10 gauge will suffice.
Wire gauges are defined in such a way that the lower the gauge, the thicker the wire. So, 8 gauge wire is thicker than 10 gauge wire.
The most common wire size for an extension cord to use would be a #14 conductor. As extension cords are classed as flexible cords, the proper terminology would be a 3C/14. The cord consists of three #14 conductors, whose colouring is white, black and green covered by a plastic sheath.
4 gauge
on a 4000 watt amp the best gauge wire woul be between 2 and 0
18 gauge
You should use a 4 guage wire. There is a handy chart located at http://www.the12volt.com/info/recwirsz.asp which lists the proper wire size for differing wattages.
2 or 4
A 12 gauge wire can support a load of approximately 2200 watts.
A #8 conductor is rated at 40 amps. Wattage is the product of amps x volts. As you can see the voltage is needed in this question to answer it. In the electrical trade I have never come across the terminology watt amp. Volt amp, yes.
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No, 10 gauge wire requires the use of a 30 amp breaker. A 20 amp breaker is only used on 12 gauge wire.
Look i have a 5500 watt power acustic amp and its saids not to use nothing under 0 gauge. So use that thicker wirer mean better performance. Try it!!
1600 watts is unusually low for electric baseboard heaters! These usually are rated at about 6000 watts.Typical electric baseboard heaters operate on 220 volts thus you heater would pull about 7.3 amperes and 16 gauge wire can easily handle this.A standard 6000 watt baseboard heater pulls about 27 amperes and needs 10 gauge wire.
Wire sizes are governed by the amperage the wire is to carry. To answer this question the load current is required.